Saturday, January 22, 2022

Khatia Buniatishvili - Rhapsody in Blue

15 comments:

  1. Just achingly beautiful.
    Thanks so much.

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  2. This made my Saturday evening. Real American music at its pinnacle.

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  3. Damn.
    Thats not a piano. Its an extension of her soul....

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  4. Fun fact. Mitch Miller (of sing along with Mitch) was in the orchestra when this premiered.

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  5. George Gershwin, himself, would have been in awe of that performance. Wow!

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  6. This is the finest music ever written. I cannot listen to it without crying at the end. Magnificent version, thank you.

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  7. WOW!! Talk about feeling the music. Just fabulous

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  8. Absolutely stunning... Thank you for finding and presenting this. I am rarely in awe of my species, but sometimes, it is unavoidable....

    Mike in Canada

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  9. 's wonderful, 's marvelous, 's Gershwin!
    One of the finest compositions ever written, played beautifully here, and one of my all-time favorites.
    Thanks.

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    1. And if you can't listen to this, and see in your head a montage of a thousand vignettes of everyday life in New York City circa 1920, your soul is blind.
      This entire piece is a poem to the Big Apple, Gershwin's birthplace and home for most of his life.

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    2. BTW, this composition turns 100 in 2 more years.
      Imagine hearing it fresh in 1924, starting with the signature smart-ass "Look at me!" clarinet glissando solo opening, one of the most instantly recognized openings in orchestral history.

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  10. Khatia is doing it all from memory!

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  11. Best rendition of the United
    Airlines theme I ever heard, or saw.....thanks

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  12. The New York of yesterday.
    What a way of bringing it to life for us today.
    God, that was good!
    Heltau

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